The purpose of this site is to discuss why the world is not working for 100% of humanity yet.

We can all agree that we are not using the technology we have to the best of our abilities.Some prominent people knowledgeable in the field say we have the ability to provide a high standard of living to everyone on earth, without compromising the environment.

You may not think we can get everyone up to a high standard of living but we could clearly feed more people, house more people, heat out homes more efficiently, drive our cars more efficiently, produce less garbage and get by with fewer slaves (yes there are still slaves, more than any other time in history).

This site wants you to ask yourself why?Why aren't we doing a better job?

I've read what others think, and I've got some of my own ideas.

So ask yourself, why aren't we cleaning the drinking water of the entire world, why aren't we stopping slavery, but look for a common reason. Don't look to solve each issue, look for why we allow all of these things to happen, and more importantly what we need to change so we don't.

So what is it that is it that is holding us back from using solutions we know will work?We have people starving to death. All they need is food. The simplest of solutions, but we watching the news about the guy waiting outside of the Apple store weeks in advance so he can get a new phone which will is little more than a status symbol. The status it is showing is that our culture holds technology for technology's sake in higher regard than human life.

So what's going on? What's the Problem?People doing bad things. They pollute, cheat, steal, kill too many animals, chop down too many trees, rape, kill and enslave each other.Why?They want money, power, prestige. They want to secure resources for themselves and those they care about.So they just want to be happy?Yes, they want to be happy, and they put their needs ahead of others.Are they happy?They don't seem happy, they have secured resources for themselves, but lots of people are depressed.Are the resources secure?They seem secure, but things can go bad quick. The more we stress the environment the less secure it gets. Wild fires, air pollution, droughts, food shortages, floods, tornados, earthquakes, hacking issues, kidnapping. If you want to go fast go alone, if you want to go far go together.So people are hoarding resources to fulfill their needs, they are just kind of overdoing it?Yeah, everything is equated to money for ease of doing business, and the pursuit of money is insatiable, so people never stop wanting more. They are going to convert the world to money and have nothing left but money.The research on happiness shows that what does make us happy doesn't really cost anything, and we get a lot out of helping each other, so if we focus on happiness rather than money we could make huge changes in a short amount of time.So why aren't people doing it?Hoarding resources was a necessity until recently, it was how people survived. It has served us very well. Everything you see today is a result of it. And people aren't convinced that there is enough for everyone yet, it's never been the case so far, and we don't see proof of it, so they are playing it safe. Cooperating and sharing is risky, you put yourself at risk of being taken advantage of so people fear that.What happens if we continue like this?Lots of people are going to get screwed. The people that are good at hoarding resources, get better and better, the rich get richer, and their money and power allows them to change the rules and rig the game so they get more and more. The gap will widen and widen, they may see the risks and share some wealth, but it's not a good system, it doesn't lend itself to people being happy on either side rich or poor. I'm not saying everyone needs to share everything, I'm saying if it goes extreme people at the bottom may come after those at the top and those at the top may try to stave them off (people kill each other). Now that we have drones I think it would come down to autonomous weaponized drones and chemical warfare.

Recap:All of our problems are due to misguided pursuits of happiness. The way we decide what the right thing to do is, we try to avoid pain and go towards pleasure. Unfortunately the world has gotten too big and too complicated (and there are too many people trying to influence us to make decisions that are bad for us and good for them) that we can't do a good job at this on our own any more.

So what we need is?We need to help people make better decisions based on all of the information available.Lots of people are trying to do this, but too small, too time consuming, and still too profit driven (biased).An app that scans barcodes to tell you if a product comes from an unethical parent company is too laborious. We need a whole store we can trust to only sell goods that align with our values.We can't rely on government to give this to us.We can't hope corporations step up to do this willingly.Our laws have stacked the deck against us. The law says corporations must do everything they can to make the most money, even if that is against the law and reward outweighs the risk. They are going to keep pushing the limits and they are going to keep using their power to change the laws so they don't have to break them. If an executive tries to stop it they will get replaced. The system has created a monster. We need to empower the consumer. The market economy depends on it. It only works if the consumer can make decisions which achieve their best interest based on the information available. Right now they can't, there is too much information, to much misinformation, and too much hidden information. We need to stop buying products that rely on slaves if we don't agree with slavery, we need to stop buying products that come from farms that are destroying their local environment, we need to stop buying products that are sucking the ground water reserves dry. We need to stop working jobs that we feel are making the world a worse place. We need to stop marrying people we will eventually kill and end up on dateline. We need to stop taking unnecessary risks.

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Do we really have the technology to solve all of the world's problems?

The only way to prove that would be to do it. I'd say we can all agree that there are solutions we are not using, lots and lots of solutions being under utilized or totally ignored. And it is not until we try that we will find out. What I think we can also agree on is that we will not get to a point where we live efficiently enough to make the world work for 100% of humanity, until we make that a goal which we are all striving for.

R. Fuller tracked the gains in efficiency we've seen over the years and he concluded in the 1980s we reached a level of technology that would allow 100% of humanity a very high standard of living, and that it could be achieved within 10 years. It's just a matter of using the latest technology in our everyday objects like homes and cars.

What's holding us back?

The only reason people do anything is when they feel it would lead to a better future. Our global short sightedness leads us to short sighted solutions which only benefit a few people around us.

What's the solution?

We need to develop a system that will help people make better decisions. There are armies of people out there trying to make us make bad decisions, decisions that will drive up their profits. People don't know that they could have a maintenance free house for the price of their car, if they set up a production factory cranking them out. We need people to better understand themselves, why they make the decisions they do make, and we need to provide them a service that will help them rate their options against a scale that takes into account the global issues such as water usage, air pollution and slavery. Then we can vote with our time and our money.

What if we don't try to make the world work for 100% of humanity?

Our technology is making it so easy to touch so many people so quickly. The problem now is if we continue to widen the gap between the rich and the poor. Smartphones, drones and 3D printers that can print guns to viruses we are giving the world very powerful technology. If we have marginalized groups of society they could act out. We could have drug lords flying around autonomous drones with guns on them. They won't care that it is illegal for a drone to make the decision to kill, that will be their leg up on the law

I have all of the answers to all of the world's problems!! Please listen to me! Well, I mean read this page and see what you think.

Seriously, I think it's easier that we realize.

To solve all of the world's problems all we need to do is focus on figuring out how to make the richest people as happy as possible, as efficiently as possible!

You probably think this is a joke, but it's not. This is Elon Musk level business planning (He's going to convert the world to solar power by starting with a sports car). Some of you may think we're already kind of doing this, but you're wrong, you're right but you're way way wrong.Corporations are focusing on selling to the rich, and they are selling them things by making them think those things will make them happy, but the system is actually set up to make you unhappy as soon as possible so you will buy more things to make you happy again. It's actually the worst, it makes people extremely unhappy, and it uses up all of the worlds resources and pollutes beyond belief and relies on more slavery than ever to do it.

So what's my reasoning and why will it work? ... And how the hell do I propose we do this?

The world is facing many global issues, pollution, slavery, starvation, depression, obesity, economic meltdowns, etc. It would take a long time to list everything, and it would take waaaay longer to write out all of the solutions.

So, what's common among them?They are our problems. "Nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so" you know. And aside from deciding what is good and bad in our minds, we are causing these problems. Humans are holding other humans as slaves, humans with more than enough food are failing to find a way to get people with no food some food.

To look for a common overriding solution, we need to know the overriding reason why we do what we do.

Many people have a very mystical idea about this, about why we do what we do. Lots of people have lots of ideas, but I don't think it is nearly as complicated as that.

I think it can be summed up by a joke I just heard.I heard a comedian explain how men pick out their clothes. He said, men want to look cool, that's it. If you want to know what a certain man thinks is cool, just look at what he wears. If you see a guy wearing a weird outfit, it's because he thinks it looks cool!

Similarly, people are all doing what they think is right. Everyone is doing what they predict will make them the happiest at some point in the future. Some people are looking for happiness right away and some people are looking for it further out in the future. If you see someone doing something weird, it's because that is what they think is going to make them happy.

Now our big problem is OUR IDEAS OF WHAT WE THINK MAKE US HAPPY IS WAAAAAY OFF.

So all of our problems we are facing are the cumulative result of our collective misguided pursuits of happiness.

So the solution to all of our problems is to find the most efficient way to be as happy as possible. Turns out the things that make us the happiest do not take a lot of resources.

It's really amazing, we just need some start-ups to make a business out of it, figure out how to get people on board.Solve the problem of cooperating. Cooperation is inherently risky, so a third party could really help the situation.

******If you've made it this far think about this.With great power comes great responsibility. Our tech today is giving everyone great power, but we can't trust everyone to use it. Lots of people are getting severly abused by the global economy, it's no surprise that they might lash out. Just like it's common for underpaid fast food workers to steal, developing country people may resort to piracy, kidnapping, hacking, or terror plots. We need to stop making new tech until we are ready for it. We need to spend a few years figuring out how to use the tech we have to make the world work for 100% of humanity to prep us for disastors, mitigate disastors, and to prevent conditions that would cause regions or the world to want to lash out against the rest of the world.

Our problem is - we make bad decisions- we don't know what makes us happy- we are scared to share- we don't think there is enough- we don't understand our brain, we don't understand our own decision making process-

We should not be putting all of our effort into new technological advancements.We should be trying to figure out why we aren't using the ones we've already got.

Like, sweet can't wait for the hyperloop, now I can live even further from where I work and hate my life travelling faster than ever.

Why do we do what we do?

I heard a comedian once describe how men pick out their clothes. He said, men want to look cool, if you want to know what a certain man thinks is cool. If you see a guy wearing a weird outfit, it's because he thinks it looks cool!

Similarly, people are all doing what they think is right. Everyone is doing what they predict will make them the happiest at some point in the future. Some people are looking for happiness right away and some people are looking for it further out in the future. If you see someone doing something weird, it's because that is what they think is going to make them happy.

Seriously, like, there are people starving to death in the world. Think about that. This problem is not some complicated cancer that keeps coming back, or a virus that has no cure.These people don't need to be treated by doctors or nurses they don't need any special care.They just need food, any food, so they can eat it, and keep living.Can you even imagine this?

How to make the world work for 100% of humanity, with no disadvnatage to anyone